On June 30, Yongli Zhu led an army of 45,000 troops to Yiyang in person, at this time Li Dingguo had besieged Yiyang for more than a month, and still did not relax. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info He built a sandwich city on the periphery of Yiyang for dozens of miles, cutting off Yiyang from contact with the outside world, preventing the reinforcements of King Sanshun's reinforcements, and when Zhu Youlang's army arrived, the wall was lengthened for a while, and Yiyang City was completely besieged.

After some discussion, the king of Sanshun of Yuezhou and the king of Meile Zhangjing Tuntai drew up a plan to rescue Yiyang on two roads, and the general of the southern part of Qingping, Kong Youde, ordered Tuntai to lead his headquarters of 4,000 Manchuria with blue flags and more than 800 Dongjiang cavalry to take the land route, from the antlers, to the camp field, and to break into Yiyang, and ordered the king of Huaishun, Geng Zhongming, and the king of Zhishun, Shang Kexi, to take 8,000 Dongjiang soldiers and horses and more than 25,000 green battalion soldiers to take the waterway by boat, and go south along the Dongting Lake until the mouth of the Ruan River, and then enter Yiyang from the mouth of the Ruan River, and the two armies will meet in Yiyang at the beginning of July to break the siege in one fell swoop.

Tuntai had earlier followed Azig to attack Shaanxi from the east, and then went south to Huguang, and soon after Li Zicheng was killed and the Chu army surrendered, Azig returned to Beijing. At this time, the northern part of Huguang had been conquered, and Tuntai, as the governor of the eight provinces, led a small number of Manchurian knights to garrison Wuchang. The Qing troops stationed in various parts of Hubei were mainly traitors from the Southern Dynasty and the Dashun Army who had just surrendered, and for a time, Huguang's troops were empty, but fortunately, He Tengjiao, who was stationed in Changsha at that time, did not have many soldiers and horses at hand, and the situation in Huguang was relatively stable.

Unlike He Tengjiao, Zhang Kuang and others, Tuntai is deeply aware of the lack of his own strength, more self-aware, and more pragmatic. After his arrival, he sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty's civil and military generals and the remnants of the Dashun army who had not yet been annexed, and entrusted him with important tasks to stabilize and expand his territory. For example, Tian Jianxiu, Zhang Nai, Yuan Zongdi, Wu Ruyi, Liu Tichun, Hao Shaoqi, etc., all sent envoys to Wuchang to contact under his recruitment, but in the end it was because of the problem of shaving their heads, and no agreement was reached Soon, Tian Jianxiu and other generals of the Dashun Army on the East Road led their troops north into Hubei, and joined the Dashun Army on the West Road led by Li Jin, Gao Yigong and other nine leaders in the Jingzhou area, and only Hao Shaoqi and Wang Jincai remained in Hunan.

And He Tengjiao and Zhang Kuang's hostility to the Dashun army was short-sighted. Although Li Chixin and other troops of the Dashun Army were reorganized into the loyal battalion, which greatly enhanced the strength of He Tengjiao, He Tengjiao, Zhang Kuang and others did not give full play to the strength of this team to expel the Qing army that had not gained a stable foothold, but instead criticized the loyal battalion on issues such as food and salary, and the capable Wang Jincai department was forced to rebel by He Tengjiao.

In the original history, it was under the stubborn management of He Tengjiao that the weak Tuntai survived to the army of the Pingnan general Kong Youde, and then, the Qing army swept through the south of Huguang and completely drove the soldiers and horses of the thirteen towns of He Tengjiao's department out of Huguang.

In Kong Youde's military orders, the number of the two armies was exaggerated, for example, the 4,000 Manchurian soldiers in Tuntai were praised as 10,000 Manchurian elite cavalry, Geng Zhongming's 35,000 foot soldiers were praised as 70,000 soldiers, in fact, there were only 8,000 Dongjiang elites, and the other 20,000 or so were miscellaneous green battalion soldiers.

Despite this, Tun Tai and Geng Zhongming are both Qing court generals, and there are many fierce soldiers under their command, and the momentum of this aid is like thunder, it seems that this battle is determined to win.

The two armies set off from Yuezhou, along the water, and by land respectively to aid Yiyang, which was an important decisive battle for both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Because Geng Zhongming's monk and Shang Kexi's officials and troops far exceeded the 5,000 soldiers and horses of Tuntai, the reinforcements unanimously believed that Geng Zhongming was the commander of this sortie, and among the two armies, his Western Route Army was the mainstay.

However, Kong Youde had instructed Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi in advance that what their two armies should consider was not the primary and secondary subordinates, but the problem of regular soldiers and surprise soldiers. In other words, what they have to consider is not their personal status, but the combat mission of the two armies, the nature of the operation, and how to accomplish the rescue mission according to the nature of the operation.

In the view of the resourceful Shang Kexi, since the general clearly stipulated that the two armies fought separately and did not subordinate each other, then there was only mutual cooperation with each other and no subordination, and the question of putting the main side first had lost its practical significance.

The person said that although their official titles are much higher than that of Mele Zhangjing Tuntai, but Tuntai is Manchu after all, it is the loyal dog of the master, and it is also the loyal dog of the Manchurian master, after all, there is still a difference, and the Qing Dynasty is the world of the Manchus, not the world of the Han people, and the Manchus regardless of their origin, it is determined that they want to be higher than the Han people, so in terms of actual political status, they are still under the Manchurian dogs.

If Kong Youde hadn't had the temporary seal of General Pingnan, he would have ordered the Manchurian general of Fudo Tuntai, which could be regarded as a bit of exceptional reward and trust from Dolgon to Kong Youde, a senior loyal dog.

Shang Kexi, who understands the powerful relationship, feels that if you really want to talk about the main and secondary, then it should also be Tuntai as the main and Geng Zhongming as the second. This priority is not determined by title, not by the number of soldiers and horses under his command, but by race.

Therefore, Shang Kexi, who has always been cautious and resourceful, taking into account the overall situation, took advantage of the situation to mention Geng Zhongming, Geng Zhongming can be the coach of the division, and naturally he is not a dumbfounder, and he is also careful to deal with Tuntai, the Manchurian general, and he is never willing to provoke Tun Tai on this sensitive issue that is easy to lead to contradictions and disputes, because of Geng Zhongming's and Shang Kexi's knowledge, the question of who is the coach was carefully avoided, and Tun Tai was very satisfied with their sincere and modest attitude.

However, Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi knew very well in his heart that there could be no distinction between priority and priority, but Qizheng must figure it out.

In ancient warfare, attention was paid to the relationship between regular soldiers and odd soldiers, and generally the regular soldiers were the mainstay, supplemented by the odd soldiers, and sometimes they won by surprise, and the importance of the status of the odd soldiers exceeded that of the regular soldiers.

In terms of this rescue battle, the more than 35,000 cavalry of the Western Route Army are obviously regular soldiers, and the 5,000 soldiers and horses of Tuntai are strange soldiers, and the two sides have completely different tasks.

The regular soldiers undertook the frontal main attack to attract the main force of the Ming army, and every step forward had to pay a heavy price, and the casualties must be very large, of course, this is also the main significance of the existence of cannon fodder in the green battalion. The Manchurian soldiers are very precious, they are very noble, they do not need to fight to the death with the Ming army, they only need to fight hard at the critical moment, as the existence of the last straw that crushes the camel, break the Ming army's position, take advantage of the situation to break through any section of the city built by the Ming army on the periphery of Yiyang, and get in touch with Zhuo Luo and Ma Jiao scales in the city, and then attack the Ming army inside and outside, and win the battle in one fell swoop. (To be continued.) )